Joshua St. Pierre, "Cheap Talk: Disability and the Politics of Communication" (U MIchigan Press, 2022)
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How Communication Has Been Put to Work Within Capitalist Economyes
The book represents almost a decade of thinking that I am like, and myself has changed in that whole time anyways. The story I trace in the book is that it's a very rich, you know, prior to the 19th century, having clear any efficient speech on what I call fluency speech was more or less reserved for lawyers and priests right? And so when communication and speech becomes really for the first time in history, and generalized history that applies to the whole popular relation then there are new forms of ableism and dis ableism born.
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